cocklers

The view from here is marvellous, but it's impossible to ignore the fact that the bay you are looking at claimed the lives of 23 Chinese cocklers a few years ago.

Restaurant review: Midland Hotel 2011

However Clarke's claims that it will be useful for fighting terrorism, will help with identity fraud, and will even help prevent such tragedies as the death of the cocklers in Morecambe Bay, remain:

Archive 2004-12-01 James 2004

As for the Morecambe Bay cocklers they were working illegally and off the books for companies that did not have scruples about employing illegal immigrants trafficked in from outside the country.

Archive 2004-12-01 James 2004

However Clarke's claims that it will be useful for fighting terrorism, will help with identity fraud, and will even help prevent such tragedies as the death of the cocklers in Morecambe Bay, remain:

Charles Clarke's woolly defence of the govt's ID cards James 2004

As for the Morecambe Bay cocklers they were working illegally and off the books for companies that did not have scruples about employing illegal immigrants trafficked in from outside the country.

Charles Clarke's woolly defence of the govt's ID cards James 2004

These were dug by the cocklers either from the sand at the end of the Canvey Island or on the Maplin Sands somewhere off Shoebury.

A Chapter of Adventures 1867

I suppose he thought that Joe, you, and me, made but a poor cocklers 'crew.

A Chapter of Adventures 1867

Only licensed cocklers are allowed to operate in the area

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Print Liverpool Coastguard in more Ribble estuary cockler rescues Further rescues of cocklers have been carried out on the Ribble Estuary - the 26th in two months.

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On Wednesday afternoon, five cocklers were helped by Lytham RNLI after their unseaworthy boat's engine failed.

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